Category Archives: Deeper Christian Life

May 28, 2013

Sermon: Heaven’s Watch & Hell’s Fury

By David D. Flowers

As many of my readers and subscribers already know, I’m seeking to pastor a like-minded (missional-Anabaptist) church. I greatly appreciate your prayers during this time. It makes a difference.

Our current fellowship allowed me the opportunity to preach last Sunday. FBC Woodlands/Birnham Woods was gracious enough to film it so that it can be used in the search process.

In the following sermon, I talk about the power and purpose of prayer as it involves God’s timing and spiritual warfare. And it’s only 26 minutes long!

How have you seen God at work around you through the power of prayer? Please share your experiences with “the unseen” realms that war against us. Encourage others with your stories. It really matters.

D.D. Flowers, 2013.

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May 20, 2013

Give It To Jesus

By David D. Flowers

We’ve all been told at one point or another to give things to Jesus. But what exactly does that mean? Think about it. What does that look like?

In the following video blog, I share what that looks like for me in my practice of imaginative prayer. Don’t let your relationship with Jesus become dull and lifeless for lack of a disciplined imagination.

What are you holding on to that you need to give to Jesus? What do you need to throw in the fire? Throw it in the fire and leave it in the ashes.

D.D. Flowers, 2013.

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May 15, 2013

The Next Big Thing

By David D. Flowers

I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we’ve been shown the mystery!  Col 2:2-3 (MSG)

How often have you thought, “If I could just have [insert obsession here], then I would be at rest.” Maybe you’ve thought something like that.

Many of us, especially those in ministry, have probably been told in a wilderness period that there are BIG things ahead, if we’ll just press on. It may be true that the Lord will increase and expand your influence in the days to come, but what if it doesn’t happen the way you envision it?

More importantly, what if I told you the next BIG thing won’t even really satisfy us if we’ve missed the greater things that God wants to do within us—that is to root us into the depths and mysteries of Christ.

I don’t want to have any other obsession but Jesus. Only Jesus is BIG enough to fill the desires of the human heart. In the following video, I talk about why our deepest need is to make Christ the next BIG thing.

Have you ever felt restless while you wait for God’s promises? Are you finding that he is enough? Let’s make knowing Jesus central and supreme.

D.D. Flowers, 2013.

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May 11, 2013

How To Trust God (An Open View)

By David D. Flowers

In the following video blog, I talk about my current challenges in life and vocation. The last few weeks have given me the opportunity to discover where God is in the face of my doubt and life’s uncertainties.

And it’s prompted me to ask, “What does it mean to trust God?”

Have you faced any uncertainty lately? Having difficulties trusting God? Are you trusting in a certain outcome, or are you trusting in the God revealed in Jesus? May we be comforted in our knowledge of Christ.

D.D. Flowers, 2013.

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